The villain, greedy for more wealth, consults a noted seeress who in a vision shows him a treasure chest guarded only by a single country maiden. Together they go to search for this treasure, and find the country girl in Tillie. The seeress hypnotizes Tillie who, with her pet pig in her arms, is carried away to an old barn loft. They torture Tillie in an attempt to make her tell where the treasure is hidden. Tillie manages to dispatch the pig with a message to her sweetheart tied to its tail, saying, "I am in the hands of a hypnotist, save me." The pig delivers the message to Tillie's sweetheart, and then guides him to her prison where he arrives just in time to save her life.
—Moving Picture World synopsis